Miss You Already (2015)

This is a rather simple film about two friends, Jess (Drew Barrymore) and Milly (Toni Collette). The film moves quickly through their friendship, honing in on the time right after Milly's cancer diagnosis. The cancer is treated realistically, with Milly throwing up and strands of hair falling out. She keeps a mostly good attitude about the whole thing, until she has to get a double mastectomy. Jess is supportive, but has her own struggles. She and her husband, Jago (Paddy Considine) are trying to have a baby but it isn't going well. They no longer have sex out of passion but only for the purposes of trying to conceive which can't be fun. But at least they are having sex. Milly and her husband Kit (Dominic Cooper) aren't, especially since he flinched when he felt her large scar across her chest. Though he can't look at her anymore, he isn't the one who has an affair, she does. With the sexy barman, Ace (Tyson Ritter).
Then Jess and Milly have a falling out.  Jess can't bring herself to tell her that she's pregnant after IVF especially with Milly's cancer barely being in remission. Kit planned a lovely party for Milly, but she isn't having it and throws a fit before taking Jess on an adventure to see the Moors and hook up with Ace again. Jess simply cannot believe that she is being unfaithful to Kit.
Then the cancer spreads to Milly's brain and she accepts the fact that she's dying. Of course she's not happy about it but she accepts it. The most painful scene is when she tells her young daughter that she's dying.
And Milly does die, not long after Jess gives birth to her son. But Jess stays a part of the family as she and Milly weren't just friends, they were sisters. Milly is irreplaceable.
Though the film is simple. Barrymore and Collette are totally believable as best friends, delivering natural performances effortlessly. Neither role is easy and they perform with grace and dignity. They do have excellent support, from Considine and Cooper and Jacqueline Bisset as Miranda, Milly's actress mother. This is a film with few flaws and that doesn't happen too often. Grade: B+